Me & Chuck

As part of my affiliation with the U.S. President's Council on Financial Literacy, I was invited to the U.S. Department of Treasury for the annual report to the President. Charles Schwab (pictured center) is the Chairman of the Board.

Crew VS.

Part of my crew for the Team Blackout Music Video, (l-r) John C. (grip), Spike (DP), Alex (gaffer) and myself (Director).

Talent VS.

Reggie and Zack of Team Blackout, accompanied by two of the female leads for their music video, face off with the production crew.

Ones

I had a client that was using $1 dollar bills for props in a film shoot. At the end of the shoot, he asked me, "I can return the ones to the bank and give you bigger bills, or if you take the ones, I'll give you extra for your trouble".  So, what do you think I did...

The Reverend

Former U.S. Congressman, the Reverend Dr. Floyd H. Flake is the senior pastor of the more than 20,000 member Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral of New York and President of Wilberforce University. The church and its subsidiary corporations operate with an annual budget of over $34 million. The church also owns expansive commercial and residential developments; a 750 student private school and various commercial and social service enterprises, which has placed it among the nation's most productive religious and urban development institutions. Allen Church has provided resources and guidance for innumerable faith-based and secular institutions. Its net assets are valued at over $100 million.

Flake served eleven years in the U.S. Congress, and was a member of the Banking and Finance, and The Small Business Committees. He established a reputation for bipartisan, innovative legislative initiatives to revitalize urban commercial and residential communities. Most notably, the Community Development Financial Institutions Act of 1993 contained provisions named the Bank Enterprise Act (BEA), authored by Representative Floyd Flake, which provided incentives for financial institutions to make market-oriented investments in destabilized urban and rural economies.

I had the pleasure of hanging out with Floyd for the afternoon. He was interviewed for one of my Television productions, Dollar™, for which he appeared as a professional authority. Maureen Aladin of Eye On It ® Studios, did an outstanding job producing the piece.

Eye Surgery

Well more like lens surgery. I am on location filming for my current feature film project "Anomaly" and the internal ground glass of my 35mm lens adapter had some particles on it, so I dismantled the enclosure and got busy (me on right). Everything went great after I got my adapter all cleaned up. John (pictured on left) provided the facility for our shoot. He's an eye surgeon and budding producer (working on Anomaly as Associate Producer) and an awesome person!

HR & Kelly PR

Theresa Kelly (pictured in middle) of Kelly PR, a good friend of mine and member of the Guns 4 Cameras committee.